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Sam Mendes accepts the award for best drama movie for 1917 at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.

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'1917' Wins At The Golden Globes, Before Most People Can Even See It

10:34am January 06, 2020

by Linda Holmes

Sam Mendes' war epic 1917 won't be in theaters until Friday, but it's already won the big Golden Globe. Once Upon A Time In ... Hollywood, Fleabag, Succession and Tom Hanks also had big nights.

Harvey Weinstein (center) leaves a bail hearing last month in New York City. The former Hollywood megaproducer has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women. He now faces five charges in New York City.

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Harvey Weinstein Heads To Trial For Sex Crimes In A #MeToo Landmark

7:37am January 06, 2020

It's the first criminal trial for Weinstein, whose alleged misconduct helped set off a movement. Now, the former producer faces five charges that may land him a long prison sentence in New York.

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Conservator Felicitas Klein, right, traveled from Germany with Villas at Bordighera, an 1884 painting by Claude Monet. She inspects the painting at the Denver Art Museum, along with senior paintings conservator Pamela Skiles.

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How Do You Move 100+ Monet Masterpieces? Very, Very Carefully

3:41pm January 05, 2020

by Stephanie Wolf

Some 120 paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet are on display at the Denver Art Museum. They're on loan from all over the world — and getting them from place to place is a lot of work.

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Rachel Syme On 'Perfume Genie'

7:59am January 05, 2020

Sarah McCammon talks to writer and critic Rachel Syme about her Twitter feed feature, "Perfume Genie," in which she recommends perfumes to readers who describe what they want 2020 to smell like.

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T.S. Eliot's Love Letters Unsealed

8:11am January 04, 2020

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to scholar Frances Dickey of the University of Missouri about the trove of love letters T.S. Eliot wrote to a woman he called his "muse." The letters were unsealed this week.

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'Fresh Air' Favorites: Patti Smith

1:28pm January 03, 2020

by Terry Gross

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. The punk icon reflected on her career and her 22-year friendship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe in 2010.

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'Fresh Air' Favorites: Bruce Springsteen

1:28pm January 03, 2020

by Terry Gross

This week, we're listening back to some favorite Fresh Air interviews from the past decade. In 2016, Springsteen reflected on how he and his music were shaped by home, roots, family and community.

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Ask Me Another host Ophira Eisenberg interviews Luke James at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

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Luke James: Not 'Chi' About Singing

10:59am January 03, 2020

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Luke James chats about opening for Beyoncé and Prince and sings-along to some classic steamy slow jams. Plus, find out why he's super into wolves.

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Ophira Eisenberg performs on stage alongside Jonathan Coulton on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

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The City Formerly Known As

10:54am January 03, 2020

Turns out change can be a good thing. In this quiz, contestants guess a U.S. city's current name, given the name it used to go by.

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Contestants Paul Alexander and Sarah Sandkuhler face off in a game on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

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More Machine Than Man

10:54am January 03, 2020

Beep boop! In this audio quiz, contestants guess which fictional A.I. or robot-y voices they hear.

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